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Engineers recruited through UPSC ESE enters into CPWD in two cadres- Central Engineering Services (CES), Group-A and Central Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Services (CE&MES), Group-A. Initial posting of CES and CE&MES Engineers are done as Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) and Assistant Executive Engineer (Electrical) respectively. They are provided training in National CPWD Training Institute, Gaziabad for 32 weeks. After that, they are generally posted as Assistant Executive Engineer (Admin.), however some are also posted in field under Executive Engineer.They get promoted to the post of Executive Engineer after 5–6 years. Executive Engineer is very important and crucial post. Executive Engineer works as Engineer-in-charge in most of the construction/maintenance works. Most of the tenders are called by Executive Engineer (some are called by Assistant Engineer and Assistant Executive Engineer also)and agreement is made with contractor. All bills of contractor for the work done is paid by the office of Executive Engineer. A lot of financial transactions from the office of Executive Engineer makes the post of Executive Engineer very responsible.Then, Executive Engineer gets promoted to the post of Superintending Engineer. Superintending Engineer and above posts have a common command for both Civil and Electrical. Then Superintending Engineer gets promoted to the post of Chief Engineer. There is no inter-reporting between Superintending Engineer and Chief Engineer. Executive Engineer (Electrical) and Executive Engineer (Civil) both reports to the Superintending Engineer or Chief Engineer (Whoever is having jurisdiction). Every AEE generally reaches at least upto the post of Chief Engineer.Work of Engineers in CPWD is focused on :Sending preliminary estimates to clients on their requisition.After getting Administrative Approval and Expenditure Sanction from the client, Detailed Estimate is prepared for getting technical sanction by competent authority of CPWD and calling e-tender.Award of work to the L-1 contractor (if amount quoted is within 5% of justified amount).Getting work executed by the contractor as per the agreement and specifications of CPWD.Checking measurements of work done and bills raised by contractor.Passing bill by the office of Executive Engineer and payment to the contractor.Besides above, an important work is to meet with different clients.

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There are many reasons for lesser recognition of “IES”. Following are the reasons I am able to recollect right now:Officially there is no service known as Indian Engineering Service. In fact IES stands for Indian Economic Services. But, with time it has become a trend often exploited by coaching institutions to attract engineering graduates.Although “IES” is not popular among the masses nor is ESE, but many people have idea about the services like Railways, CPWD, OFB, MES etc. But they do not know that the executives of these services are selected through an exam conducted by UPSC.I often feel engineers in India are not valued much by the people. And this has somehow increased alarmingly in last 10 years or so with a lot of engineering colleges and engineers.Engineers are really bad at advertising. They contribute enormously in every sector of economy like education and research, health, infrastructure, IT and telecom, manufacturing etc. but, still their work is not recognized much ( only at the department level) instead the credit is taken by a manager or an administrator or a politician.“IES” officers have very less and even no contact with the people. The public relations and advertising of the infrastructure developed by an “IES” officer are handled either by an officer recruited from civil services exam or by politicians.The work done by an “IES” officer although has a huge impact on lives of many but still the impact is not direct as it is in services like IAS, IPS, IFS, IFoS, IRS etc.With an increase in participation of private sector, the work of an “IES” officer is getting outsourced with time. e.g. earlier a CPWD executive engineer or Roads department executive engineer used to handle construction of a National highway from the feasibility study, sanctioning grants, design, procurement of land and other factors of production, construction and finally operation and maintenance. But nowadays with PPP models in place the role of govt. is limited in nature.“IES” officer and engineers in general are like suppliers. They are not the end product in themselves as it is with services like IAS, IPS, IFS etc. We know that we drink TATA TEA but we do not know the place where the tea leaves were plucked and the person who plucked them or the person who processed the leaves to the product we consumed.PS: This is what I am trying to say by engineers not valued much and they being bad at advertising. Following is the pic of inauguration of Lucknow Metro. Encircled person is an ex IES officer of Indian Railways and man behind many metro projects in our country- E Sreedharan Sir